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welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. nearly 2000 refugees and migrants today left the french camp in calais known as the jungle. authorities want to get everyone out before they send bulldozers into dismantle the infamous site. most of the inhabitants will be relocated to other parts of france, where they can be housed or apply for asylum. lucy williamson reports from calais. lucy: they crossed continents to get here. today thousands queued to leave. hours standing in the cold, a better bet than one more day in the jungle camp. the reward, a seat on one of 60 buses. but a ticket out of calais doesn't guarantee asylum, either

in france or the u.k. and even those who are impatient to leave reserve the right to come back. >> i will go with the people, and i might come back, i will try again. i like france, but it is not my dream. lucy: next to him, this man says he is finished with his dreams of england and wants to settle in france. "i hate england now," he says. "they don't like people from the jungle, and they closed the border." people have been queuing here since 4:00 a.m. to board one of the buses bound for reception centers across france. their motivation for coming here to calais was once all about the final destination, their dreams of england. now many are ready to go anywhere just to get out. inside the processing center, people are split into queues -- the vulnerable, families,

lone children, everyone else. their names, ages, and origins noted, but not checked. they are given the choice of destination. french names in unfamiliar places. a new temporary address. hours later, migrants began arriving at towns across france, watched warily by their new neighbors in this village. "what are all these young men going to do in a place like this?" one said. "there is not even a shop here." president hollande wanted to send a message that calais isn't a staging post for migrants, but a dead end. many here say that much is already clear. the u.k. has become harder to reach and there was optimism among some of those who decided to leave. but a local mp told us that didn't mean britain's role here was over.

>> an international scandal that there are several hundred children, some as young as 10, here just by- stuck having family in the u.k. britain is not meeting its obligations. lucy: among those joining the queues today were 4 siblings from afghanistan clinging to an english-speaking friend. their mother had asked him to take the children to asylum in england. 4 small lives among the thousands saying goodbye to calais, unsure of what the future has in store. lucy williamson, bbc news, calais. katty: they come from afghanistan, syria, africa, all those families with their miserable journey. now where do they go to? in iraq, government forces have fought their way into villages in mosul.

the campaign to reject the islamic state from the city enters its second week. i.s. has retaliated with attacks in other parts of iraq including a major assault in the northern city of kirkuk in which 100 people were killed. our correspondent has been speaking to students in kirkuk who were caught in the university buildings when i.s. attacked it. reporter: they were a group of students planning a weekend of fun. instead they were woken up by a , blast and spent a day in heavy gunfire, hiding under the bed, frightened for their lives. i.s. militants struck near the dormitory in kirkuk. priests in irbil helps them escape, but the girls are too scared to be identified. >> we got a call, we were told there was going to be a strike in the building because i.s. militants were there. we all gathered in one room and hid under the bed.

2 girls under each bed, with blankets and ben sheets -- bed sheets so the shrapnel and broken glass wouldn't hurt us. five minutes later we heard men. they were daesh, i.s. fighters. we couldn't see them and they couldn't see us but we knew they were i.s. because they kept talking about islamic state. they came and sat on our bed. they were making phone calls and asking for more ammunition. reporter: tell me what it was like when you were under that bed with i.s. fighters sitting on it, talking. >> we were all frightened. i was trying not to make any sound. not to breathe, even. i kept telling myself, stay strong, get through this. i just held my friend's hand and we kept praying. reporter: one of them tells me she could still hear the wounded i.s. fighter on her bed. he was groaning in pain. "his voice is still ringing in my ear."

another one told me she felt this was the end. >> the situation was so bad. i wanted to call my family to say goodbye and ask forgiveness for any mistakes i've made. reporter: despite the horrors they faced, the girls say they want to go back to university in kirkuk. "our faith is strong," they say. "it is stronger than i.s." under imagine being stuck the bed and i.s. fighters on top of the bed. one lucky escape for those women. i was joined earlier by a retired army officer who served as director for iraq at the national security council in the white house of both president bush and president obama. it does seem that the advancing iraqi and kurdish forces are meeting stiffer resistance from i.s.

is that what you would have expected? >> exactly. as i.s. compresses on to the city of mosul, they are denser. you push them back and they are a little more scattered. once you get them concentrated, they resist more effectively. katty: does it seem that the advance is going as well as one might have expected or hoped? >> at least as well as expected. we have seen good advances from the kurds in the east. huge body of iraqi troops. we have never seen this many iraqi troops assembled before, coming up from the south. they seem to be making good progress and are getting very close to the outskirts of mosul city. katty: we saw those iraqi troops two years ago when i.s. went into mosul and fled in the desert. have they met enough of a test from islamic state forces for us to be able to judge whether they will hold the line and be resilient this time around? >> this is a different iraqi army. they've liberated three cities.

that is the graduate level of military combat going into the city. that is really hard. they have done this in tikrit, ramadi, falluja. mosul is much greater in size and scope. it was the city of about 2 million, whereas ramadi and falluja were about 200,000. , butis a much bigger test we have had very positive signs from earlier campaigns. katty: a lot of people over the course of the last week have spoken about the challenge that this eclectic group trying to liberate mosul faces once the city has fallen come in managing the political process. you know iraq well. you have worked at security council issues on iraq. what is your hunch? >> well, this is a complex problem. the other cities liberated were purely arab. and mostly sunni. mosul has a little bit of everyone -- kurds, arabs, turkomen, christians, the yazidi. this is a much more complicated political mosaic putting this

together. ofat said, we have a lot influence over the process -- katty: the americans had a lot of influence? >> the americans have had a lot of influence. from the outside looking in there are probably some deals. katty: what kinds of conversations have been taking place? >> the americans are talking to the kurds, americans are with the iraqis, active in irbil and baghdad. the court vacating factor is, of course, turkey, -- the court vacating factor is, of course, turkey, which has come in as a late player and maybe disrupting some of those deals and that is some concern. katty: thank you for coming in. that fight for mosul continuing. a quick look at news from around the world. three french defense officials after a surveillance plane crashed shortly after takeoff at malta international airport. malta said the flight had been part of a french operation to

track usage trafficking of people and of drugs. the owners of a bakery -- christian owners of a bakery who refused to decorate the cake with a message supporting gay marriage have lost an appeal in a landmark equality case. the bakery in belfast had argued the decoration contradicted their beliefs but the equality commission argued they were wrong to treat gay customers differently. one of the most prominent american activists against the vietnam war, tom hayden, has died at the age of 76. he prompted criticism after visiting north vietnam during the conflict and on his return he was denounced as a traitor. n went on to marry his fellow campaigner, hollywood actress jane fonda, and served 18 years in the california state his family. now to the u.s. presidential race, where the candidates are hitting key states which will make all the difference on election day. hillary clinton was in new hampshire, donald trump was in the battleground state of

florida, where he continues to claim that he is winning and to fight back against the allegations of sexual misconduct. perhaps surprisingly, his appeal is not winning amongst -- waning amongst evangelical groups. this report from liberty university in virginia. reporter: it is the homecoming parade and the biggest christian university in the world. students past and present are coming together this year in the midst of an extraordinary election season. but in this often theatrical battle, all indications are the vast majority of evangelical christians have already made up their mind, to vote trump. >> no more questions. >> faith and principles are very important to me individually, as it is to everybody here at liberty. but i think it is one thing to keep in mind that we are not electing a pastor. we are electing someone who is going to get the country back on the road.

reporter: you don't feel uncomfortable voting for a man who has bragged about sleeping with married women? >> right. reporter: you heard what he said on the tape as well. >> 11 years ago, absolutely. here at liberty we believe in the power of forgiveness. reporter: so much so that the university president, one of america's most influential evangelical christian leaders, has firmly endorsed donald trump. it is not something all students here are happy about. >> i think it is hypocritical of christian leaders to not condemn some of the disgusting things he has done and not say this is not a man we want to get behind. if you are tying yourself up closely with donald trump, you are probably not doing some thing right. reporter: polls say around 70% of evangelical christians, like those at a megachurch down the road from the university, will still vote trump. the reason for many is the priority of having a president

who is antiabortion and appoints judges who will push a conservative agenda. >> if i'm given 2 choices, i don't have any choice but to vote for him. the reason is because he is pro-life, and also because the supreme court issue. this is not a four- or eight-year problem. this could be a 30-year issue, and that is why to me above all else my vote has to go in the direction of donald trump. reporter: but that for this pastor and the nearly 1/5 of u.s. voters you are evangelical, means setting aside a lot of troubling traits in the republican candidate. bbc news, lynchburg, virginia. katty: we keep hearing during the course of this campaign, people are making a choice between 2 candidates and they don't really like either of them too much. you are watching "bbc world news

america or coat --you are watching "bbc world news america ." still to come on the program -- carrie: not going to talk to me. katty: the china editor seeks conversation with the communist party but willing takers are hard to come by. pollution in the atmosphere has crossed an important threshold and may not dip below it for major oceans, accruing to the world meteorological organization, which says record levels of co2 may destabilize the climate. apparently the last time carbon dioxide was regularly above this million to 5 million years ago. reporter: our goldilocks planet -- not too hot, not too cold, just right. thanks to the invisible blanket of natural carbon dioxide in the atmosphere keeping us warm. the normal level of carbon dioxide is 280 parts per million. but humans have changed the

mixture, powering our cities with fossil fuels that give out extra carbon dioxide. we have bumped up co2 levels to 400 parts per million, huge jump , and as emissions keep rising, scientists warn we are taking a massive risk. a 400 parts per million is significant symbolic social below which we don't expect to go the rest of our lifetime. we have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the industry significant. most of the increase has happened since 1950. most of that has happened since 1950 so we have a lot of work to do if we want to get below 80 degrees. reporter: carbon dioxide is plant food, so for a while parts of the planet are getting greener thanks to the extra fertilizing carbon. but scientists warn that droughts are likely to wipe out the benefits of co2 as the planet heats.

already temperatures have reached record levels. politicians meeting in paris last year promised to curb carbon dioxide emissions to protect the claimant. but even -- the climate. but even they admit their efforts are too slow and too small. katty: the annual get-together of china's communist party leaders is always a high-stakes affair and this year it is looking to revamp codes of party discipline that could prove contentious. ahead of the main event there is what is called a dialogue with the communist party. carrie gracie went along to see if anyone would actually speak to her. carrie: a kind of coming out party to say we walk tall in the world, they say they want a frank and constructive exchange

of ideas with the outside world. of course, the chinese communist party typically not open to ideas from the outside world, especially the international media. let's go inside and see what dialogue actually means. let's see if we can get -- sorry, i think we have to go. i think we are being ejected. i'm trying to -- >> disruptive technologies. carrie: so we are now roaming the halls. we stopped by the wrong door.

we never got a chance to talk to a standing committee member of the politburo. this is supposed to be a dialogue with the commonest party, and a top man in china, top seven, in the place somewhere. but he has given us the slip. carrie: no, not going to talk to me. it is not even midday, and they seem to be packing up the main hall. i don't quite understand. we are less than two hours into the entire event. where is everybody? i just want to say hello. no hello -- i am not allowed to say hello. i'm not allowed to talk to anybody. no hello.

>> quiet celebration, which is more effective form of policymaking. carrie: why? >> because policymaking is complicated, it's nuanced. you have to sit down and see what measures can achieve what kind of results. you cannot resolve policy in a public shouting match. which seems increasingly the case in a lot of countries. katty: so, not much dialogue at the dialogue conference. you can get more of carrie's take on politics on our website. she has a fascinating piece on what people there say about the merits of democracy.

bbc.com/news. american singer bobby vee, one of the biggest teen idols of the 1960's, has died at the age of 73. he had a string of hits including "take good care of my baby." >> ♪ and that would really hurts me so there is something i've got to say take good care of my baby ♪ got his firstee big break at the age of 15 when he was chosen with his band of 1959w schoolboys after the think rest that killed buddy holly. was byars ago he die most of all timers disease -- diagnosed of alzheimer's disease. sticking with the world of music, it may not be the best-known rocked up but it is certainly considered one of the most influential. "the velvet underground & nico"

album was recorded in 1966 and to mark the 50th anniversary of its release, founding member john cale will perform every single track live in liverpool. ♪ reporter: "the velvet underground & nico," one of the most influential albums of all time. >> ♪ sunday morning >> living in an apartment on the lower east side, sunday morning, after a late-night. you get nostalgic. >> ♪ early dawning reporter: as a musician, john cale is known for looking forward, but thinks it is right to acknowledge the album's 50th anniversary next year, and will play the whole thing live for the first time ever in the u.k.

>> it encapsulates everything we were trying to do, which is take rock 'n roll in a different direction and talk about subject matter that generally wasn't talked about. "venus in furs" was sadomasochism. "heroin" is a very interesting poem about how unhappy somebody's life is. >> ♪ it's my wife and it's my life ♪ reporter: john cale formed the band with lou reed. andy warhol was the manager and created the famous sleeve. how important was the album cover? >> i can't overestimate it. he called me and said "what do you think of this as an album cover?" i went crazy. i said, it has all your outlines, the brand of andy warhol was there. reporter: three years this week since lou reed died. how are you coming to terms with it?

>> well, his work survives. all the stuff that we did together, still there and still strong. that is how i look at it. reporter: and the reason john cale opted for the one-off gig to take place in liverpool, the influence the music scene of the 1960's had on him. on john lennon, one eye on bob dylan, and like, who is the next move, what is the next one going to be? trying to figure out where we fit. reporter: and 50 years on, it is a question he is still asking. bbc news, liverpool. katty: john cale remembering velvet underground and still playing it, too. you can get the rest of the day's news on our website. there,ack on mosul is

more information on that and of course on the u.s. presidential election as well. if you would like to reach me and the rest of the bbc team, you can reach us on twitter. thanks so much for watching. do tune in tomorrow. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits from newman's own to charity and pursuing the common good, kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs, and aruba tourism authority. >> planning a vacation escape that is relaxing, inviting, and exciting is a lot easier than you think. you can find it here, in aruba. families, couples, and friends can all find their escape on the island with warm, sunny days,

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